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bottom of screen missing

Hi,

The screen on my laptop is b0rked, so I&#039;m wanting to plug a monitor inot the video out thing at the back and use it with a crt. It works, but for some reason the bottom.. maybe 20% of the screen is blank. The image isn&#039;t distorted or anything, it&#039;s like it just decides it can&#039;t be bothered drawing any further down.

I&#039;ve tried messing around with the video setup, changing the monitor to a standard 1024x768 crt, but it just does exactly the same thing. It will draw the full screen if I&#039;m in command line mode.

If I can&#039;t fix this I&#039;m gonna have to put windows xp or something one it.. and you don&#039;t want that , do you? ;-)

FWIW I&#039;m using kde 3, fedora core 2, gdm , the laptop, I guarentee you never heard of, but it has an sis650 graphics card and the monitor is a crappy old ibm g74.

I&#039;m guessing there&#039;s an x config file somewhere that I need to monkey around with. I&#039;m not bothered if it screws up the display on the laptop screen because it has a tasty looking crack in it anyway.